Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes

by Marika Leino

Overview

This book examines the use, status and context of Italian Renaissance plaquettes, whether they were articles for personal adornment, liturgical objects, domestic artefacts, or models for architecture and painting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783039110681
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/13/2012
Pages:	367
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Marika Leino is Lecturer in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on Renaissance sculpture, the history of collections and the construction of status. She holds a PhD from the Warburg Institute and was formerly a Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a lecturer at Christie’s Education, London.

Table of Contents

Contents: Origins and production of plaquette reliefs – Dissemination of plaquette designs in other contemporary art – Antique influences and all’antica creations - the relationship of plaquette reliefs with antiquity – Religious demand and uses – Plaquettes as fashion accessories - the function of plaquette reliefs as hat badges and sword pommels – Plaquettes and Rock Crystals: Valerio Belli and Giovanni Bernardi.